Flitwick dead?

[LadyOfThePensieve]

No: HPFGUIDX 127280


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, chnc1024 at A... wrote:
>  
> In a message dated 4/7/2005 11:24:39 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
> hannahmarder at y... writes:
> 
> "...Flitwick's genetic composition has been relegated to the very back  
> of my mind over the *six* novels in which he features..." (emphasis  
> mine)
> 
> Six books?  He's been in them all so far, so that  suggests to me that 
> he'll be dead by the end of HBP.  Maybe that  indicates some kind of 
> attack on Hogwarts, in which other teachers  (including DD) die.  That 
> could be what she's getting at in her  rather ominous 'some people
won't 
> like this'  message.
> 
> Hannah
> 
> I think you probably have got a point, Hannah. Why shouldn´t JKR
give us such a hint? I expect to see more deaths than "just" one. In
book 4 and book 5 several people died.


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>  
> Chancie:
>  
> I don't think that JKR statement on Flitwick means he will die... 
Do  you 
> expect her to say "well I didn't really have a place to put his 
background
> in the books this far, and I doubt I'll have room in the 7th, so..."
  That's 
> not her!  She's not going to give away who's going to die/or not  die! 
> It wouldn't make since for her to say something about book 7 when she
> hasn't even started on that yet.  Not saying that he won't die in  HBP,
> I just don't think her statement can be considered a clue, or at
lest  not
> IMO.
> 
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